Head Coaches of the Toronto Maple Leafs

The Air Canada Centre, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1999

The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional team based in Toronto, Ontario. The team is a member of the Northeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is one of the Original Six teams of the NHL. There have been 36 head coaches in their franchise history; one during the era of the Toronto Arenas (1917–1919), six during the era of the Toronto St. Patricks (1919–1927) and the rest under the Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–present). Five Maple Leafs coaches have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players: Dick Irvin, Joe Primeau, King Clancy, Red Kelly and Dick Duff while four others have been inducted as builders: Conn Smythe, Hap Day, Punch Imlach and Roger Neilson.

Frank Carroll has the highest winning percentage of any Maple Leafs coach, with a .625 record from the 24 games he coached from 1920 to 1921. Neither Mike Rodden nor Dick Duff, who coached only two games each in 1927 and 1980 respectively, won a game with the team. Dan Maloney has the worst record of any who coached more than a season, with a .328 winning percentage from 160 games. Punch Imlach coached the most games of any Maple Leafs coach with 750 games from 1959 to 1969. Pat Burns is the franchise's only coach to win the Jack Adams Award awarded to the head coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success". Pat Quinn also won the award, but with two different teams prior to coaching the Maple Leafs. The current coach of the Maple Leafs is Ron Wilson, who signed a four year contract with the team after Paul Maurice was released at the end of the 2007–08 season.

Key

#	Number of coaches–a running total of the number of coaches, any coach who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
T	Ties
OT	Overtime/shootout losses
Win%	Winning percentage
*	Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
†	Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Maple Leafs

Coaches

Statistics are up to date as of the end of the 2008–09 season.

#	Name	Term	Regular season					Playoffs				Awards	Reference
			GC	W	L	T/OT	Win%	GC	W	L	T
Toronto Arenas
1	Dick Carroll†	1917–1919	40	18	22	0	.450	2	1	1	0	Stanley Cup (1918)
Toronto St. Patricks
2	Frank Heffernan†	1919–1920	12	5	7	0	.417	–	–	–	–
3	Harvey Sproule†	1919–1920	12	7	5	0	.583	–	–	–	–
4	Frank Carroll†	1920–1921	24	15	9	0	.625	–	–	–	–
5	George O'Donoghue†	1921–1923	29	15	13	1	.534	2	1	0	1	Stanley Cup (1922)
6	Charles Querrie†	1923–1924	43	21	21	1	.500	–	–	–	–
7	Eddie Powers†	1923–1926	66	31	32	3	.492	2	0	2	0
—	Charles Querrie†	1926–1927	29	8	17	4	.345	–	–	–	–
Toronto Maple Leafs
8	Mike Rodden†	1927	2	0	2	0	.000	–	–	–	–
9	Alex Romeril†	1927	13	7	5	1	.577	–	–	–	–
10	Conn Smythe*	1927–1931	134	57	57	20	.500	4	2	2	0
11	Art Duncan	1931–1932	49	22	16	11	.561	2	0	1	1
12	Dick Irvin*	1932–1940	427	216	152	59	.576	66	33	32	1	Stanley Cup (1932)
13	Hap Day*	1940–1950	546	259	206	81	.462	80	49	31	0	Stanley Cup (1942, 1945, 1947–49)
14	Joe Primeau*	1951–1953	210	97	71	42	.562	15	8	6	1	Stanley Cup (1951)
15	King Clancy*	1953–1956	210	80	81	49	.498	14	2	12	0
16	Howie Meeker†	1956–1957	70	21	34	15	.407	–	–	–	–
17	Billy Reay	1957–1959	90	26	50	14	.367	–	–	–	–
18	Punch Imlach*	1959–1969	750	360	267	123	.563	89	44	45	0	Stanley Cup (1962–64, 1967)
—	King Clancy* (interim)	1966	10	5	5	0	.500	–	–	–	–
19	John McLellan†	1969–1973	295	117	136	42	.462	11	3	8	0
—	King Clancy* (interim)	1972	15	9	3	3	.750	–	–	–	–
20	Red Kelly*	1973–1977	318	133	123	62	.516	30	11	19	0
21	Roger Neilson*	1977–1979	160	75	62	23	.541	19	8	11	0
22	Floyd Smith	1979–1980	68	30	33	5	.477	–	–	–	–
23	Dick Duff*	1980	2	0	2	0	.000	–	–	–	–
—	Punch Imlach*	1980	10	5	5	0	.500	3	0	3	0
24	Joe Crozier	1980–1981	40	13	22	5	.388	–	–	–	–
25	Mike Nykoluk†	1981–1984	280	89	144	47	.402	7	1	6	0
26	Dan Maloney	1984–1986	160	45	100	15	.328	10	6	4	0
27	John Brophy†	1986–1988	193	64	111	18	.378	19	9	10	0
28	George Armstrong†	1988–1989	47	17	26	4	.404	–	–	–	–
29	Doug Carpenter	1989–1991	91	39	47	5	.456	5	1	4	0
30	Tom Watt	1991–1992	149	52	80	17	.406	–	–	–	–
31	Pat Burns	1992–1996	281	133	107	41	.546	46	23	23	0	Jack Adams Award (1993)
32	Nick Beverley†	1996	17	9	6	2	.588	6	2	4	0
33	Mike Murphy	1996–1998	164	60	87	17	.418	–	–	–	–
34	Pat Quinn	1998–2006	574	300	196	78	.591	80	41	39	0
35	Paul Maurice	2006–2008	164	76	88	22	.463	–	–	–	–
36	Ron Wilson	2008–present	82	34	35	13	.494	–	–	–	–

External links

• Toronto Maple Leafs official website